1000 fake account to promote sony products

http://digg.com/gaming_news/NeoGAF_website_creates_1000_fake_accounts_to_promote_Sony_products_shills

now I wonder how many similar account in SW.

it says the article came from VGChartz so I guess that makes it uncredible

/sarcasm

Well, I don't know about Sony Fakeboys, but I know that Peter Monyleux types here under the pen-name of Saolin, and Satoru Iwata and Reggie Fils-Aimes take the names of Spider_Jones and Kakarot00769, respectively.Killer_Wuggles

:lol:... awesome...

typical sony!

typical sony!

xchiefmegadethx

chiefmegadeth? Do you have a gamertag named chiefmegadeth?

http://digg.com/gaming_news/NeoGAF_website_creates_1000_fake_accounts_to_promote_Sony_products_shills

wiiwillwiiwill

no

no surprise, every sony related game thread at neogaf have 2000+ response.

that's typical sony hype style.

no surprise, every sony related game thread at neogaf have 2000+ response.

that's typical sony hype style.

jrpgliker

I don't know what's more depressing, that companies do this or that people are suprised by it.PBSnipes

What surprises me is that people believe whatever they read on the internet, and without bothering to check when their Digg post were submitted, or the source.

I don't remember exactly what happened because it was a frightingly unimportant event, but I managed to dig up the NeoGAF thread. It's mostly people making fun of the whole thing, but I managed to find a post describing how things went down.

"1,000 new NeoGaf members.. i submit to you, the internets, that they are Sony shills!


"Thats crazy! You have no proof!"


"I have all the proof in the world! Check out the comments from these new members... PRAISING SONY!"


"Ha! Out of 1,000 people of course some are bound to favour Sony! This proves nothing"


"Yes... but thats not all. If you check the forum you can clearly see the NPD reps username is.... SONYcowboy!!!!!"


"Nooooooooo!!!! He's right!! Sony .. Neogaf... they... tricked us all!"

Painey

Sony makes Sony look bad...Phazevariance

They do? :S

http://digg.com/gaming_news/NeoGAF_website_creates_1000_fake_accounts_to_promote_Sony_products_shills

now I wonder how many similar account in SW.

wiiwillwiiwill

Are you new to the internet??

Over a year old and fake....

Created 1 year ago, and linked to an old message board thread that doesn't even work anymore, yup I Sony at it again. :roll:lantus

LMAO:lol:

Sounds like a news story only made to a) make Sony look bad, and b) get people to snoop around in the Neogaf forums and subsequently join their forums.the-very-best

considering sony was behind the "all i want for christmas is a psp" thing and the sony graffiti, i wouldn't be suprised if this was true.

Well, I don't know about Sony Fakeboys, but I know that Peter Monyleux types here under the pen-name of Saolin, and Satoru Iwata and Reggie Fils-Aimes take the names of Spider_Jones and Kakarot00769, respectively.Killer_Wuggles

so true xD

Since you could make infinite PSN IDs, there's a chance there's some advertisers that can make fake PSN ID accounts just to promote whatever they like. Crazy.

[QUOTE="the-very-best"]Sounds like a news story only made to a) make Sony look bad, and b) get people to snoop around in the Neogaf forums and subsequently join their forums.shoeman12

considering sony was behind the "all i want for christmas is a psp" thing and the sony graffiti, i wouldn't be suprised if this was true.

It isn't. Some guy at the VG Chartz forum (or if it was PS3forums) made it up. His reasoning for the 1000+ newly approved accounts being shills went something like what I described in my post on the previous page.

lol a year old post resurfaces, nice.

Well, I don't know about Sony Fakeboys, but I know that Peter Monyleux types here under the pen-name of Saolin, and Satoru Iwata and Reggie Fils-Aimes take the names of Spider_Jones and Kakarot00769, respectively.Killer_Wuggles

HAhah QFT!

IF EVERYONE would actually click on the link, not only would they find out this is extremely old, but that it isn't credible at all, but just some random post.

Instead, people are bashing Sony and mindlessly throwing in their 2 cents about how horrible Sony is.

Here :

Nintendo sold the rights of Metroid to Bungie, and since Bungie broke away from M$, they are porting Metroid to PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, and ZUNE. Oh Great.

Now, I can wait for people like the TC to find this on GOOGLE, and post it as proof a YEAR from now.

It's true, I made it up just now, but it's bound to be true In some universe.

[QUOTE="jrpgliker"]

no surprise, every sony related game thread at neogaf have 2000+ response.

that's typical sony hype

InsaneBasura

I don't know what's more depressing, that companies do this or that people are suprised by it.PBSnipes

What surprises me is that people believe whatever they read on the internet, and without bothering to check when their Digg post were submitted, or the source.

I don't remember exactly what happened because it was a frightingly unimportant event, but I managed to dig up the NeoGAF thread. It's mostly people making fun of the whole thing, but I managed to find a post describing how things went down.

"1,000 new NeoGaf members.. i submit to you, the internets, that they are Sony shills!


"Thats crazy! You have no proof!"


"I have all the proof in the world! Check out the comments from these new members... PRAISING SONY!"


"Ha! Out of 1,000 people of course some are bound to favour Sony! This proves nothing"


"Yes... but thats not all. If you check the forum you can clearly see the NPD reps username is.... SONYcowboy!!!!!"


"Nooooooooo!!!! He's right!! Sony .. Neogaf... they... tricked us all!"

Painey

If Sony has 1000 fake accounts to promote their products

Microsoft has there own man to edit Xbox's Wikipedia articles

I'm pretty sure more than 1000 people read 360 wiki pages everyday :roll:

If Sony has 1000 fake accounts to promote their products

Microsoft has there own man to edit Xbox's Wikipedia articles

I'm pretty sure more than 1000 people read 360 wiki pages everyday :roll:

Dante865

lol except wait...dont we have CONFIRMATION that a sony europe empolyee edited the halo 3 wikipedia page?

oh and the article? 1 year 18 days ago is when it was posted...this is old.... older then old.

"Submitted: 1 year 11 days ago" Yay? :?Ibacai

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